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Mice 1961 - Stacey Levine - Bog - Verse Chorus Press - Plusbog.dk

FINALIST, 2025 PULITZER PRIZE IN FICTION NAMED IN WASHINGTON POST''S "50 NOTABLE WORKS OF FICTION" IN 2024 “Stacey Levine’s fiction is unlike anything else. Peculiar, vivid, preternaturally alert to the strangeness of the human condition, Mice 1961 is terrific.”—Kelly Link, author of The Book of Love A novel set in the Cold War era about two orphaned half-sisters, a boarder, and the neighbors who surround them, a stylized and startling depiction of lives lived at a high pitch of emotion in the shadow of global catastrophe ( from the Pulitzer Prize jury''s citation ). Stacey Levine''s Mice 1961 recounts a pivotal day in the fraught relationship of two orphaned sisters through the eyes of their obsessively observant housekeeper, Girtle. Will Jody be able to cope if her younger sibling Mice, subject to constant harassment in their community for her unusual appearance and habits, leaves home? How will their all-watching companion convey her fierce attachment to them both? As a Greek chorus of local characters cavort and joke their way through a neighborhood party, the sisters and their ardent admirer cross paths with an unsettling stranger, leading to momentous changes for all. Set in southern Florida at the height of cold-war hysteria, Mice 1961 is a powerful meditation on belonging, conformity and otherness.

DKK 166.00

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Ultrazone - Mark Terrill - Bog - Verse Chorus Press - Plusbog.dk

William S. Burroughs is dead and buried, but he can find no rest. His ghost is roaming the backstreets of Tangier in search of a missing manuscript. During his chaotic years living there in the 1950s Burroughs not only wrote Naked Lunch, he also spewed out a mass of much darker material that he then lost - hundreds of pages in which he wrestled with his demons. He fears his longtime nemesis, the Ugly Spirit, has been lurking in those pages ever since - and is now emerging from its slumber. To help him find and destroy the infected manuscript before the Ugly Spirit can spread its evil in the world, Burroughs enlists fellow ghosts and old Tangier pros Paul Bowles and Brion Gysin, Joseph Dean and Brian Jones, as well as an inept witch, an elderly sorcerer, and an enterprising gang of macaque monkeys. Their adventures - often comic, sometimes ghastly - involve vanishing corpses, a magic carpet, giant black centipedes and a word virus that is about to go pandemic.

DKK 166.00

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Dressed In Black - Lisa Mackinney - Bog - Verse Chorus Press - Plusbog.dk

Sisters Mary and Betty Weiss, together with twins Mary Ann and Marguerite Ganser, were schoolgirls when they formed the Shangri- Las in 1963, and had a meteoric rise to fame with songs like ''Leader of the Pack'' and ''Remember (Walking in the Sand).'' Their career was cut short for reasons largely beyond their control, derailed by the machinations of Mafia-linked record executives, and heartbreak and tragedy followed. Historian Lisa MacKinney marshals an impressive array of new evidence to tell the Shangri-Las'' story, dispelling many myths and long-standing mysteries along the way. Equally importantly, Dressed in Black radically rewrites the accepted narrative of the Shangri-Las'' place in rock history. As young women, they were permitted little agency within a male-dominated industry that viewed teenagers as fodder to be manipulated and exploited by producers, songwriters, and label owners. This has long served as an excuse for critics to deny the musical input of the group members, to trivialize the Shangri-Las as a ''girl group,'' and to assign their work a lesser rank in the canon of ''authentic'' rock and roll. MacKinney''s achievement here is to foreground the Shangri-Las'' considerable abilities, and establish the centrality of their performance of their songs to the group''s underappreciated artistic achievement. This is not to deny the critical role in the group''s success of the legendary writer/producer George ''Shadow'' Morton, but MacKinney''s clear-sighted account reveals Morton as part of a complex ecosystem of musical relationships. He crafted highly emotional material specifically for the Shangri-Las because he knew they had the skills to make his mini-operas both believable and enthralling. The group members channeled personal anguish into their extraordinary performances, which are central to the songs'' impact-no less so than for such classic singers as Ella Fitzgerald and Elvis Presley, who also relied on producers and songwriters for their material. The Shangri-Las'' impassioned delivery elicited a massive response from their audience of fellow teenagers at the time and has continued to connect profoundly with audiences ever since. MacKinney backs up these arguments with in-depth analysis of key recordings, and makes a powerful case that their achievements warrant a far more prominent place for the Shangri-Las in the history of popular music.

DKK 231.00

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The Music Never Died - Mark Swartz - Bog - Verse Chorus Press - Plusbog.dk

What if Biggie Smalls had survived the assassin''s bullets and reinvented hip-hop with the help of an avant-garde luminary? If Amy Winehouse had shaken off her demons and channeled her inner Barbra Streisand into a new life on a tropical island? If Jeff Buckley had been pulled alive from the Mississippi by a devilish hand and become a pioneer of Southern black metal? With accompanying illustrations by Jeb Loy Nichols, Mark Swartz''s stories imagine what might have happened to these stars and more - including Jimi Hendrix, Gram Parsons, Janis Joplin, Marvin Gaye, Lhasa de Sela, Lil Peep, and Jim Morrison - if their untimely deaths had been averted, or somehow had not been the end of their lives. Booklist praised Mark Swartz''s fiction for its ''lithe satirical humor, impressive intellectual dimension, and sly provocation,'' and these qualities are on full display in these at once heartfelt and borderline absurd tales.

DKK 159.00

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The Book of Unconformities - Hugh Raffles - Bog - Verse Chorus Press - Plusbog.dk

When anthropologist Hugh Raffles''s two sisters died suddenly within weeks of one another, he reached for rocks as reassuringly solid objects, ways to make sense of these events through stories far larger than his own. His book is grounded in stories of specific stones and their intimate relationships to human activity - the seam of marble under Manhattan prized by its native Lenape people, mica from a Nazi concentration camp, petrified blubber on Svalbard''s beaches left by the brutal 19th-century whaling industry - culminating in the heart-breaking story of six Inuit adventurers Robert Peary transported from Greenland to display alongside a huge iron-ore meteorite in 1890s New York.

DKK 207.00

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Now Is The Time To Invent - - Bog - Verse Chorus Press - Plusbog.dk

A definitive portrait of the 80s/90s indie-rock music scene in the form of 60 profiles/interviews and many rare photographs. This collection takes as starting points the psychodramas of Throwing Muses and the proto-slacker anthems of Camper Van Beethoven, and follows them through to the critical triumphs of Sleater-Kinney and Neutral Milk Hotel over a decade later, taking in such pioneering artists as P.J. Harvey, Sonic Youth, Pixies, Bikini Kill, Nick Cave, Beck, Cat Power, Pavement, Sebadoh, Breeders, Jeff Buckley, Belle & Sebastian, Hole, Magnetic Fields, and many more.

DKK 85.00

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Make-Up For Murder - June Wright - Bog - Verse Chorus Press - Plusbog.dk

As a schoolgirl Maisie Ryan was often bullied by her peers, but a decade later she''s a TV star, the glamorously renamed Rianne May. When she''s invited to be guest of honour at Maryhill College''s annual reunion, she has a chance to dazzle her old tormentors the way she does her adoring television audience. But as she''s holding court at the reunion tea party, old grudges and new jealousies swirl around her - and suddenly one of her tablemates drops dead, poisoned. Was Rianne the intended victim? She evidently thinks so - only that day she''d received a death threat. Rianne flees the scene and cannot be found. Who is the murderer? And what has happened to Rianne May? Fortunately, the school''s principal is Mother Paul, who immediately calls for Detective Inspector Savage. She assisted him (or was it the other way around?) in solving a previous case (Faculty of Murder), and between them the unlikely pair will unravel this one too. But there will be more drama - and more deaths - before the murderer is uncovered. Moving between the brash new realm of Australian television in the early 1960s and the cloistered atmosphere of a girls'' convent school, Make-Up for Murder is the third and final Mother Paul novel and a must-read for all fans of June Wright''s blend of intrigue, wit, and psychological suspense.

DKK 146.00

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Nothing But Murders And Bloodshed And Hanging - Mary Fortune - Bog - Verse Chorus Press - Plusbog.dk

Mary Fortune''s dramatic crime stories, set in colonial-era Australia, comprise the first detective fiction series written by a woman; they also provide a vivid account of life and death in a country in rapid flux, as the huge population increase following the discovery of gold in 1851 led to great riches for some, poverty and violence for others. Born in Ireland in 1832, Fortune emigrated to Australia during the goldrush, which she observed firsthand and depicted in many of her stories. A bigamous marriage to a policeman gave her inside knowledge to write about crime, and over the next 40 years she produced more than 500 stories, serialized under the title The Detective''s Album in the mass-circulation magazine The Australian Journal. She tackled subjects such as murder, armed robbery, bootlegging, and sexual violence with a frankness unprecedented for a woman in the 19th century. This book collects 18 of Fortune''s finest stories, while also showcasing her range as a writer-from melodrama and Gothic horror to social realism and what we now call noir. Mary Fortune lived a precarious existence-repeatedly jailed for public drunkenness, homeless on occasion, unable to prevent her illegitimate son George drifting into a life of crime. She preserved her privacy by publishing under pseudonyms, most commonly ''Waif Wander'' (or ''W.W.'')-it is a measure of her fame at the time that a racehorse and a greyhound were both named after Waif Wander. But her anonymity meant that when she died in 1911, she was almost lost to literary history. Only recently has her true identity and her extraordinary life story emerged. This collection, appearing concurrently with a biography, restores her to her rightful place as a path-breaking crime writer.

DKK 173.00

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Maybe The People Would Be The Times - Luc Sante - Bog - Verse Chorus Press - Plusbog.dk

A new collection of essays from this acclaimed critic on photographers, musicians, artists, and writers (from Patti Smith to Weegee to David Wojnarowicz). Most of the pieces have a strong autobiographical element and sense of place, the Lower East Side of New York City where the author came of age in the fertile 1970s/80s. He traces his engagement with music and photography, his experience of the city, and his development as an artist and observer, in a series of articles that range from memoir to essay, fiction to critical analysis, humour to poetry.

DKK 211.00

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